The children - 11 months, 12 months and 13 months old - each had both arms broken.

Police said Thursday they would charge the owner of the day-care center, Beverly Bonds, 32, with neglect and child abuse.

She was not immediately arrested.

"These injuries are not accidental in nature," police said Wednesday in the court papers used to close down the Bonding Babies day-care center, which operated in a working-class neighborhood out of a cream-colored concrete-block home with burglar bars on the front door and windows.

Day-care centers in Alachua County are licensed and inspected by the county Health Department.

Family day-care homes like Bonding Babies are inspected twice a year, and Bonding Babies was last inspected in February, said Len Arcidiacono of the Health Department.

"This place has been open since '93. We've never had a problem with it, never had any complaints, and then all of a sudden this happened," he said.

"The inspections were all kind of mediocre."

Sheriff's Detective Carl Mader said he was notified Saturday by Shands Hospital that a year-old child suffered two broken arms while at Bonding Babies.

Another youngster had been treated for two broken arms the day before, and a third child was at the hospital Saturday night with one arm in a cast and the other arm broken in more than one place, Mader said.

The three children, two boys and a girl from different families whose names were withheld, were recently cared for at the day-care center, investigators said.

-"When a number of different children show up with similar injuries, then we have to look at what they have in common, and if it's a day-care center, I mean that sends up every imaginable red flag," said Tom Barnes, spokesman for the state Department of Children and Families.